How the US tried (and failed) to learn from 'The Battle of Algiers'

The stern Colonel Mathieu, in shades and camouflage, stands cross-armed as flashbulbs pop a few feet away. The photographers’ lenses and newsreel cameras are focused on a handcuffed resistance leader standing next to him.An officer barks, “No more photographs,” as one of the journalists packed into the military command room rises from his seat. “Mr. Ben M’hidi, isn’t it cowardly to use your women’s baskets to carry bombs, which have taken so many innocent lives?”A bespectacled Larbi Ben M’hidi coolly responds, “Isn't it even more cowardly to attack defenseless villages with napalm bombs that k